“I myself hold bitcoin,” Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn and a member of the PayPal Mafia, told CoinDesk as he described his reasons for releasing a new hip-hop video about central banks competing against cryptocurrency. Hoffman’s interest in bitcoin goes back years, yet it would be a mistake to lump him in with the burn-traditional-banking-down school of long-time evangelists. “I am a pro-government and well-run society guy,” he said, and yet Hoffman also believes a small handful of global cryptocurrencies will arise, inevitably, because they will ...